Me and Claude are fighting right now.
Rachet: Hold My Earrings
ALT: Rachet: Hold My Earrings
static.klipy.com
Angel Banks
@angelbanks.com
She/Her. I build developer communities and the programs that make them grow. AI + developer learning + DevRel. Co-founder @refactr.tech • prev. Microsoft. Professionally put together, personally petty. https://angelbanks.com/
Me and Claude are fighting right now.
Rachet: Hold My Earrings
ALT: Rachet: Hold My Earrings
static.klipy.com
Speakers wanted! 3 spots for our final tech meetup of 2026 (Nov 11, Westside Motor Lounge). Any topic, all levels, first-timers welcome. Pitch by Sept 18: refactr.tech/speak
My August @refactr.tech Radar picks: 🛠Awesome GitHub Copilot 📚The Predator's Table by @kimcrayton1.bsky.social 🗣️Garbage World (a podcast for trash people 🗑️) See the whole team's picks + Community Voice @sarahedo.bsky.social, then send us your Sep pick → refactr.tech/radar
LAST CALL! Our community survey closes today. A few minutes, and you help decide what we do next: refactr.tech/feedback
Please take a couple of mins to let us know what you'd like to see fro REFACTR in the future. Survey closes this Wed!
Help us build what's next at REFACTR! A 4-minute survey on the events, topics, and formats you want more of. Closes Wed https://refactr.tech/feedback
Are you dialed in? 🛸 We're co-hosting DialedIn Atlanta this Tuesday for #ATLTechWeek: a hands-on WebXR workshop from CreateHER Fest × Vonage. Build immersive browser experiences with Vonage APIs, no XR experience needed. 📅 Tue, Aug 11 · 6 to 9 PM 📍 Memento Art Gallery 🎟️ luma.com/iunems4d
DialedIn Atlanta | A CreateHER Fest Tech Series #ATLTechWeek · Luma
Are You DIALED IN? A hands-on WebXR creator workshop presented by CreateHER Fest × Vonage This event is a part of #ATLTechWeek - a week of events hosted by…
luma.com
@kimcrayton1.bsky.social's The Predator's Table just came in the mail. Learned so much from Kim over the years, especially about naming the things. It's about how the people and systems that exploit others keep getting a seat at the table and staying protected. So proud! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White Supremacy
You have been told the table is the destination. Get in the room. Earn a seat. Give more, ask less, make yourself acceptable to the arrangement. The arrangement has a name. This book names it: the Pre...
bookshop.org
Friend & REFACTR speaker @kimcrayton1.bsky.social just dropped The Predator's Table, on how predatory power keeps its seat no matter who's in the room. Grab it:
The Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White Supremacy
You have been told the table is the destination. Get in the room. Earn a seat. Give more, ask less, make yourself acceptable to the arrangement. The arrangement has a name. This book names it: the Predator's Table.The Predator's Table is not a metaphor. It is the operating logic of the myth of white supremacy, the mechanism through which systems, institutions, and policies were built and maintained to extract value from some and protect the position of others. The myth convinced everyone at the table that the arrangement is natural, inevitable, and the best that is available. It convinced those with the most power that they have the most to protect. And it convinced everyone else that the problem is themselves.The Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White Supremacy is a field guide for white folx who are willing to look at what they have been living inside and decide to refuse it. Not to reform it. Not to get a better seat. To become unavailable to it entirely.Kim Crayton has spent thirty years tracing how the myth operates: not as attitude or bias, but as a designed and resourced system running through every institution white folx were born into and every policy that shaped what was possible before they made a single choice. This book does not ask you to feel guilty about that. It asks something harder: to see it accurately, name what it has cost you and everyone around you, and build the capacity to practice differently.The myth does its most effective work in the space between what you intend and what you actually do. That space is where this book operates. Each chapter builds the argument one layer at a time, naming how the myth installs itself in thought, behavior, organizational decision-making, and economic logic, and what it costs at each layer.Each chapter closes with three prompts: Spot the Pattern, Name the Cost, Try This Instead. These are not reflection questions. They are tools. The field guide travels with you because the work does not happen in a single reading. It happens in the moment when the myth shows up in a meeting, in a budget decision, in who gets heard and who gets told to wait. The prompts are designed for those moments.The destination this book builds toward is sovereignty: the condition in which the myth of white supremacy no longer has an address inside you. Not freedom from the myth's ongoing operation in the world. The internal state in which it can no longer reach what it once reached. That destination is available. This book is the map.
bookshop.org
Tomorrow! Bytes & Bites Friday 7/24, 11:45 AM at Krog Street Market. Come hang, bring a friend. RSVP →
Bytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 11:45 AM | Meetup
**Join us for our monthly tech lunch meetup—now at Krog Street Market!** Bytes & Bites is a casual, community-driven lunch where technologists of all backgrounds come toge
meetup.com
404 Movie Not Found Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Sat Aug 1, 2:30 @ Regal Atlantic Station. 1. Check #events channel in Discord to see where folks are sitting 2. Grab your ticket from Regal 3. RSVP on Meetup All links --> https://www.meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/314126109 #refactr #AtlantaTech
🎬 404 Movie Not Found: Spider-Man (Matinee), Sat, Aug 1, 2026, 2:30 PM | Meetup
We're switching things up. Join us for a movie night at **[Atlantic Station](https://atlanticstation.com/)** to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day together. This is a casual way
meetup.com
Career Stories during Atlanta Tech Week 🎤 Kelsey Hightower, Sarah Drasner, Angie Jones & Bree Hall. Fireside chats + a panel on where tech's headed. Joint meetup, hosted by CallRail. Mon Aug 10 · 6:30 PM RSVP via Luma → https://luma.com/16nfy3e5 #refactr #AtlantaTech #RenderATL
Meet Atlanta Tech Week & RenderATL Speakers! · Luma
A joint meetup during Atlanta Tech Week Hosted by REFACTR.TECH, Atlanta JavaScript, ReactATL, Modern Web, and Atlanta Vue.js. Sponsored and hosted by…
luma.com
🛍️ REFACTR store is live. Real merch for people who show up. Every purchase supports free monthly programming for Atlanta's tech community. refactr.tech/shop
Code Reading Club is Wed Jul 15 at PrizePicks. We read code together. No prep, no wrong takes. Just devs looking at real codebases in a room. This month's discussion will be led by Jordan Williams. RSVPs close Sun Jul 12. www.eventbrite.com/e/code-readi... #AtlantaTech
Career Stories with @kelseyhightower.com, Sarah Drasner, @angiejones.tech, and Bree Hall during Atlanta Tech Week. Joint meetup with REFACTR.TECH, ATL JS, React ATL, Modern Web, Atlanta Vue.js, hosted by CallRail. Tue 8/11 · 6:30 PM Luma registration required. luma.com/16nfy3e5 #AtlantaTech
Meet Atlanta Tech Week & RenderATL Speakers! · Luma
A joint meetup during Atlanta Tech Week Hosted by REFACTR.TECH, Atlanta JavaScript, ReactATL, Modern Web, and Atlanta Vue.js. Sponsored and hosted by…
luma.com
404 Movie Not Found is back: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Sat Aug 1, 2:30 PM @ Regal Atlantic Station. Buy your tix now! 🎟️ www.regmovies.com/movies/spide... @bethlaing.bsky.social, @ericastanley.com & @angelbanks.com are at E9/E8/E7. Drop your seat # in Discord #events to sit nearby. #AtlantaTech
Looking for a job is a full-time job, and honestly it's the worst. So I threw some AI at it. Now Claude scans job boards 2x/week, vets companies via Glassdoor + Blind (catching the layoffs a posting won't mention), and nudges me to use my network. How I built it 👇 angelbanks.com/writing/clau...
I Made Claude Do My Job Search While I Slept
A scheduled Claude task that scans LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and Dice weekly, filters against my criteria, and delivers a Monday-morning digest.
angelbanks.com
Code Reading Club is back Wed 6/17. RSVPs close Sunday. Surprise excerpt, structured prompts, and language agnostic. All levels welcome. Led by Tim Pamplin. As more code gets AI-generated, reading code matters more. eventbrite.com/e/code-reading-club-tickets-1986676123766 #AtlantaTech
Code Reading Club
Sharpen your code-reading skills! Join us to explore unfamiliar code together—no matter your level or language. Fresh eyes welcome!
eventbrite.com
Tonight: Christmas in June joint meetup. Joint night with Modern Web ATL, ATL JS, React ATL & Atlanta Vue.js. Cookie exchange, summer-Santa attire contest, and tech talks on AI coding agents. 6:30 PM · Improving · Alpharetta. www.meetup.com/refactr-tech... #AtlantaTech
Christmas in June, Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Hosted at Improving — 11675 Rainwater Dr, Ste 100, Alpharetta, GA I t’s the most wonderful time of the year again! Join Modern Web Atlanta, Atlanta JavaScript, React ATL, V
meetup.com
The new REFACTR.TECH is live ✨ refactr.tech What's new: → Radar: community recommendations from members → Refreshed look → Monthly newsletter relaunched If the old site shows up, hard refresh (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac, Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows). #AtlantaTech
REFACTR.TECH — Atlanta's Year-Round Tech Community
A year-round community of engineers, technologists, and the curious-adjacent. Meetups, code reading, panels, social events, and the conversations between.
refactr.tech
Tomorrow the REFACTR.TECH newsletter relaunches. Monthly. News, events, content, community spotlights. Subscribe: bit.ly/Refactr-News #AtlantaTech
Home | REFACTR.TECH
Once-a-month notes on Atlanta tech: stories, events, and what our community is paying attention to right now.
bit.ly
Tonight at Westside Motor Lounge: AI Ship & Social with Nitish Pandey from Mailchimp on building a BI agent. Not our event. We're spotlighting them as a featured community. 6 PM · Free meetup.com/ai-ship-and-social/events/315025076 (Same venue as our Out of Office Hours tomorrow.) #AtlantaTech
Ask the Agent, Not the Analyst: Self-Serve BI with AI, Tue, Jun 9, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
June's speaker is [Nitish Pandey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitishpandey20/), Staff Engineer at Mailchimp. BI teams everywhere are drowning in "quick questions" that are
meetup.com
Next Thu 6/11: Christmas in June. Joint meetup with Modern Web ATL, ATL JS, React ATL & Atlanta Vue.js. Cookie exchange, summer-Santa attire contest, and tech talks on AI coding agents. 6:30 PM · Improving · Alpharetta. meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/315029691 #AtlantaTech
Christmas in June, Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again! Join Modern Web Atlanta, Atlanta JavaScript, React ATL, VueJS ATL, and REFACTR.TECH as we celebrate Christmas in July with a
meetup.com
REFACTR.TECH is launching an updated site in June with a new Community Recs section. Books, podcasts, tools, talks, side projects you'd actually tell a friend about. Submit yours and we might feature you on the site + in our June newsletter. Due May 31 👉 bit.ly/REFACTR-recs #AtlantaTech
"Out of Office Hours" Happy Hour No panels, no slides. Just a few hours to meet people in a setting actually built for it. 📅 Wed June 10., 6–8 PM 📍 Westside Motor Lounge meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/314122341 #AtlantaTech
Out of Office Hours (Social), Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Join us for a casual happy hour at **[Westside Motor](https://www.westsidemotorlounge.com/)**[ Lounge](https://www.westsidemotorlounge.com/), a chance to connect with other
meetup.com
Keeping this going because we are almost to the end goal. I appreciate all who have donated and grateful for that support. Just a little more to go to end goal. Please repost, thank you.
gofund.me/ef06d9d56 There’s an end in sight. I just have to make sure I am staying on top of this to get it there. Repost for reach please. Thanks.
Speaking at the @refactr.tech meetup this Tuesday www.meetup.com/refactr-tech... #Accessibility #A11y #UI #UX #AAI
Designing Intelligent Systems: Accessible AI & Real-World Architecture, Tue, May 19, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Join us for a joint meetup with **REFACTR.TECH**, **ATL JavaScript,** **React ATL**, **Modern Web ATL**, and **Atlanta Vue.js Meetup**. This one’s all about how people are
meetup.com
Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!
Tue 5/19 · Atlanta: joint meetup with ATL JS, React ATL, Modern Web ATL & Atlanta Vue.js on building with AI. Accessible chat UIs, Copilot for systems design, plus a fireside with Webflow's Neel Shivdasani. Tech Square ATL · 6:30 PM RSVP: meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/314122419 #AtlantaTech
Designing Intelligent Systems: Accessible AI & Real-World Architecture, Tue, May 19, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Join us for a joint meetup with **REFACTR.TECH**, **ATL JavaScript,** **React ATL**, **Modern Web ATL**, and **Atlanta Vue.js Meetup**. This one’s all about how people are
meetup.com
Quick ask, then back to your feed: @VetsWhoCode is 100% donor funded. Every veteran we train is free to them and not free to us. If you've gotten value from anything I've posted this month — a framework, a hot take, a reminder to ship — consider sending us $10. Thanks you.
Donate
Support veterans transitioning into tech
vetswhocode.io